But let’s compare the similarities. First up, the rabid, “you’re a fool if you don’t give this man all your money” tone of the early true believers:

Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I’ve heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence.

Jerry Reisman, who met him at the Glen Oaks Country Club in Westbury, New York, said: “He moved in some of the best social circles in New York. He worked the best country clubs. He was utterly charming. He was a master at meeting people and creating this aura. People looked at him as a superhero.“People didn’t want to know what he was doing. If it’s too good to be true, it isn’t true. But people didn’t care. They were greedy.”

Smug, too. Jeffrey Gural, chairman of real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank told the New York Times that he was teased by his friends after Madoff refused to let his family invest in the fund because he would not put up a minimum of $20 million. He said: “They thought Bernie Madoff was a genius, and that anyone who didn’t give him their money was a fool.”

The revelation that they were the fools has left Madoff investors devastated.

Those who were swindled no doubt feel nostalgia for the good times they initially enjoyed. Not to mention, that initial rush of smug superiority that came from being “in the know,” unlike the ignorant naifs outside of their social circle:

I know you may scoff and say that every single reference to the abstractions and fuzzy feelings of 3 years ago will only draw derision and intensify the pain. But there’s so much pain… At some point, won’t people want to take the drug that worked so well that other time. What intense pleasure! What brilliant hallucinations! It calls to you.

Ouch. At the time, the old video I highlighted was Michelle Obama’s 2008 line “Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

Secrecy is often needed to keep a risky investment scheme afloat, and away from the prying eyes of regulators:

One of the reasons Madoff was able to perpetrate his fraud for so long was his preference for marketing his investment business by word of mouth. Until the scam’s later years, people heard about it from friends. It was a private club, one that, famously, became only more desirable because of Madoff’s seeming reluctance to admit new investors. One of the tacit conditions, as we know now, was an understanding that information about Madoff investments — including their existence — was to be held closely. Most investors complied. Who would want to anger Madoff and risk losing their privileges?

A running theme in the Goldstein-Eilperin piece is political paranoia, the degree to which the White House kept key details of Obamacare’s implementation secret—from its own allies—because they feared that even modest efforts at transparency would lead to criticism from Republicans. It was “a sensitivity so intense that the president’s aides ordered that some work be slowed down or remain secret for fear of feeding the opposition.”

“According to two former officials,” they write, “CMS staff members struggled at ‘multiple meetings’ during the spring of 2011 to persuade White House officials for permission to publish diagrams known as ‘concepts of operation,’ which they believed were necessary to show states what a federal exchange would look like. The two officials said the White House was reluctant because the diagrams were complex, and they feared that the Republicans might reprise a tactic from the 1990s of then Sen. Bob Dole (R., Kan.), who mockingly brandished intricate charts created by a task force led by first lady Hillary Clinton.”

I think the most profound similarity is their use of psychology to snare their victims. Obama and Madoff both indicated those who were part of their circle were SPECIAL. Better people, exclusive, handpicked because they were a cut above. It worked so well there were many just clamoring to get screwed by Bernie. And it still works for Obama. The rest of us are blighted rubes who are not part of the chosen. We have shunned the light of Obama. Just like two con men they know what levers to pull, what buttons to push to start the salivation. Just like Pavlov's dogs. And the beauty of it all is, the marks (Obama voters) don't know when they've just been played. Obama. Madoff. Con artists.

Obama pushed it. Democrats at all political levels designed it, hid its provisions, wildly understated its costs, and said it had to be enacted into law to see all the good things in it. They then enacted it as a one-party Socialist reform leading to a Utopian future.

Don't let Obama get all the blame when he retires in 3 years. Make sure the phrase is "ObamaCare and DemocratCare", or "Obama and the Democrat Party". They worked so hard on this fiasco, it would be a shame if they didn't get the lasting credit for their ideas and implementation.

This is going to really take off. Enough of the right Americans are going to wake up and not put up with more.................The next step is to have a stronger, better led, ethical, informed, smarter, truly cherishing and patriotic , conservative U.S. Senate coming aboard in 12 months. Please start your personal part soon.